What justifies holding the person that we are today morally responsible for something did a year ago? And why justified in showing prudential concern future welfare of will be from now? These questions cannot systematically pursued without addressing problem personal identity. In pursuing this problem, essay considers whether Buddhist Reductionism, philosophical project grounded on idea persons...

<p class="Abstract">Bali is one of the cultural tourism destinations in Indonesia. As a well-known destination, industry Bali has generated huge economic benefits for Balinese people. The development started Dutch East Indies era. colonial government attempted to prevent another bloody war with Bali’s local kingdoms preserve law and order Indies. To improve their relations kingdom, introd...

The announcement of the complete DNA sequencing (Editorial 2005) has raised three orders of questions, which are already b in this forum: a) what makes us humans? Can the distance great apes be so reduced to cancel the peculiar status of Ho event another demonstration of scientific reductionism? c) I anthropology in danger because of the genocentric attitude of The analysis of the relevant scie...

Ever since Darwin a great deal of the conceptual history of biology may be read as a struggle between two philosophical positions: reductionism and holism. On the one hand, we have the reductionist claim that evolution has to be understood in terms of changes at the fundamental causal level of the gene. As Richard Dawkins famously put it, organisms are just ‘lumbering robots’ in the service of ...